Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study Reading the introduction to Lolita invoked a strong sense of déjà vu, which I realized came from the uncanny similarities between it and “The Custom House”. Both introductions serve to set up the stories as “true” (or in terms of The Scarlet Letter, based on a true story). More […]
Lolita as a Foucauldian Case Study
Tags: confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, hysterization, scientia sexualis, truth
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Kaitlyn O'Hagan, Nabokov: Lolita | 1 Comment »
The Never-Ending Confession
Monday, March 8th, 2010
The Never-Ending Confession The Scarlet Letter, a novel so imbued with the themes of sin, guilt, and confession, has an interesting confessional: the scaffold. Hester is taken to the scaffold early in the narrative and a confession is demanded of her, but she refuses that with silence. Her silence is in itself a powerful act, […]
The Never-Ending Confession
Tags: confession, Hester Prynne, passionless, Puritan, scaffold, sin
Posted in Foucault: History of Sexuality, Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Joseph Papa, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
“Double Standard of Sexual Morality.” In Cott’s essay, I was particularly intrigued by the Puritan “double standard of sexual morality” (133), in which women, being of the weaker sex, were more prone to succumb to temptation, even though it was not permitted for them to initiate sexual acts. This lead to greater blame for women […]
“Double Standard of sexual morality”
Tags: Adam and Eve, confession, Dimmesdale, Hester Prynne, Puritans
Posted in Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, Katharine Maller, Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality | 3 Comments »
Obsession for Confession
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Obsession for Confession We discussed confessions in class today — at churches, in therapy, and even on Facebook. PostSecret is another form of confession: People send in their secrets on postcards to a specified address, and the founder of PostSecret, Frank Warren, posts select ones online. He has also published several books of postcards secrets.
Obsession for Confession
Tags: confession, PostSecret
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Michel Foucault on Sexuality Discourse
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Michel Foucault, in the discourse relayed in his work The History of Sexuality, or L’Histoire de la Sexualité, the history of power, pleasure, and knowledge as told by referencing specific acts and records generated by a population. To explore, whatever may develop, mostly in the absence; yet only to discover renewed […]
Michel Foucault on Sexuality Discourse
Tags: confession, discourse, repression
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The Science of Truth
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
In Part Three of The History of Sexuality, entitled “Scientia Sexualis”, Michel Foucault makes one conclusion about the “truth”: “…There has evolved over several centuries, a knowledge of the subject; a knowledge not so much of his form, but of that which divides him, determines him perhaps, but above all causes him to be ignorant of […]
The Science of Truth
Tags: ars erotica, confession, identity, pleasure, scientia sexualis, truth
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Discourse on Sex and Sexuality
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Discourse on Sex and Sexuality In Part One of The History of Sexuality, Michael Foucault poses the question: “Did the critical discourse that addresses itself to repression come to act as a roadblock to a power mechanism that had operated unchallenged up to that point, or is it not in fact part of the same […]
Discourse on Sex and Sexuality
Tags: confession, discourse, liberation, repressive hypothesis, X-Rated America
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